KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS GENDER : an east-west comparative study

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KNOWLEDGEINSTITUTIONSGENDERan east-west
comparative study

• Framing of the KNOWING project
• Marcela Linková

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project duration and partners

• 2006-2008, Framework Programme 6, European
  Commission, STREP, Science and Society call
• Partners
• 1. Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of
  the Czech Republic
• 2. Faculty of Humanities, Charles University,
  Czech Republic
• 3. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 4. University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• 5. Department for Social Studies of Sciences,
  University of Vienna, Austria
• 6. Department of Sociology, University of Turku,
  Finland
• 7. Turku School of Economics and Business
  Administration, Finland
• 8. Department of Sociological Studies, University
  of Sheffield, United Kingdom

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project objectives

• to study research organisations, practices and
  careers with attention to
• east / west and/or centre/periphery alignments
• gender
• social / academic positioning (seniority,
  affiliation to different types of academic
  institutions, different streams of research)
• natural / social sciences

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project methods

• life course questionnaire
• discourse analysis
• participant observation
• in-depth interviews
• focus group interviews

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• Enjoy the conference and beyond!